Caplinger v. Medtronic Inc., the lawsuit in which a patient accused Medtronic of allowing doctors to use its INFUSE Bone Graft product in ways not approved by the FDA, made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Court announced it has declined to hear the case. 

Nonprofit hospitals getting challenged on their tax-exempt status have been much in the news of late.  

Successfully achieving change in healthcare is 90 percent about implementation, said Andy Slavitt, acting director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaking at the 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

President Obama has fended off Congressional Republicans’ latest stab at rolling back the Affordable Care Act, but this time GOP legislators says things are different: They succeeded for the first time in getting a repeal bill onto the President’s desk.

From long waits to manipulated medical records to preventable deaths, the Department of Veterans Affairs has had more than its share of problems over the past few years. That’s no secret. 

Anticipating a plunge in the number of uninsured patients, the framers of the Affordable Care Act reduced disproportionate-share (DSH) payments to hospitals serving outsized indigent and Medicaid populations. A recent crunch of the numbers shows the cuts are placing particular pains on children’s hospitals. 

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Dec. 18 that it planned on blocking the proposed merger of two major hospital systems in Chicago, the third time in six weeks that the FTC challenged a proposed hospital merger.

By cutting patients’ out-of-pocket expenses for screening mammography, the Affordable Care Act succeeded in sending many more women for the exams. Now comes a review of Medicare claims revealing that the effect was nowhere to be found in the target population for screening colonoscopy.